<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 9:55 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-im"><font size="4" style="" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">>> [Gemini] </span>The fact that this was done with an adult brain moves us from "simulating a worm" to "simulating an agent." It effectively moves the "Mind Uploading" timeline from "science fiction" to "active engineering project."</font></span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-im"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It should be clear by now that this is not intelligence, it's, well, I'm not sure what it is, but it's not intelligence.</i></font></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It<span class="gmail_default" style="">'s</span> behavior,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> you're right it's not very intelligent behavior, but that's because a biological fly is not very intelligent. They say their next step is to do the same thing with a mouse, and a mouse can be intelligent. I see no reason to think they will be unsuccessful.  </span><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_attr"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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